Schlagwort: Socialism

  • Peter Taaffe: Labour’s Programme ’82

    (Militant International Review, No. 23, October 1982) An indictment of capitalism: but we must draw socialist conclusionsBy Peter Taaffe Labour’s programme 1982 will form the basis for most of the debates and discussions at this year’s Labour Party Conference in Blackpool. In his introduction, Ron Haywood, the retiring General Secretary of the Labour Party, tells…

  • Peter Taaffe: Religion or Socialism

    (Militant No. 450, 6 April 1979 p. 6) The third, and final, article in the series by Peter Taaffe looks at religion in advanced industrial societies, capitalist and Stalinist. It is not just in the backward countries (dealt with in two previous articles) where attempts at a religious renaissance have been made, but also in…

  • Peter Taaffe: Labour and Socialism

    (Socialism Today No 12, October 1996) When Labour backbencher Kim Howells called for the ditching of the word ’socialism‘, Tony Blair went onto BBC Radio’s Today programme to back him. Peter Taaffe asks whether Labour still has anything to do with the ‚S‘ word. Just under a year ago we argued „that the Labour Party…